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John Malalas

491 - 578

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John Malalas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας, translit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Malalas has received more than 187,483 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Malalas is the 1,077th most popular writer (down from 1,030th in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 390th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Writer.

John Malalas is most famous for writing a chronicle of Byzantine history.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chronographia
1831
Chronicle of John Malalas
Foreign Language Study
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers traces the development of this fascinating language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the present day, combining both external and internal history into a single narrative. It is the first book in English to explore the evolution of the Greek language as a whole, in all its regional and social heterogeneity, and in both its spoken and written forms, which, from late antiquity until surprisingly recently, were strikingly different in character, and provided the classic textbook example of what has now come to be known as diglossia. The cultural roots of this phenomenon and its profound implications for the development of the language provide a continuing theme throughout the book. Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers will prove essential reading for second and third year students taking courses in the history of Greek, Classical civilization, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and historical linguistics.
1940
Ioannis Malalae Chronographia
Byzantine Empire
1831

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Malalas ranks 1,077 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Graves, Elsa Morante, Nikolai Leskov, Georg Kaiser, Pu Songling, and Charles Péguy. After him are Jean Giono, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Garcilaso de la Vega, Nikolay Nekrasov, and John Berger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 491, John Malalas ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 578, John Malalas ranks 3. Before him are Abd al-Muttalib, and Justin II. After him are Hatim al-Tai, Jacob Baradaeus, and Wuffa of East Anglia.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, John Malalas ranks 339 out of 1,347. Before him are Osman Nuri Pasha (1832), Germanus I of Constantinople (634), Charalambos (87), Ajda Pekkan (1946), Procopius (325), and Agabus (100). After him are Leo I, King of Armenia (1150), Tarasios of Constantinople (730), Qara Yusuf (1357), Irene Angelina (1181), Diodotus Tryphon (-150), and Ebussuud Efendi (1490).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, John Malalas ranks 22. Before him are Ahmad Khani (1650), Ibn Hawqal (943), Aziz Nesin (1915), Theodoret (393), Bar Hebraeus (1226), and Mimnermus (-670). After him are Zenodotus (-330), Alcman (-611), Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), Publilius Syrus (-100), Symeon the New Theologian (949), and Bâkî (1526).

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